What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.